John Maginnis is a syndicated columnist who reports about Louisiana politics. Send mail to him in care of Political Review, P.O. Box 6, Baton Rouge LA 70821. His website is LaPolitics.com.

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The president said there were no winners in the government shutdown and debt ceiling crisis, but he just wasn't looking far enough, like to Louisiana politics, where, as in competition among children these days, everyone's a winner.

Some would disagree, putting among the losers Congressman Bill Cassidy of Baton Rouge, the Republican Senate candidate, who fell in line with the caucus' much-criticized tea party wing and ultimately voted against the bill to re-open government. Democrats reveled in a survey by Public Policy Polling, a left-leaning outfit, that showed 47 percent were less ...